Homoclinic billiard orbits inside symmetrically perturbed ellipsoids

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/14/5/313zbMath1067.37079OpenAlexW2114516453MaRDI QIDQ2757155

Rafael Ramírez-Ros, Yuri N. Fedorov, Amadeu Delshams

Publication date: 2001

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2117/895

zbMATH Keywords

bifurcationsellipsoidhomoclinic orbitssymmetric perturbationssplitting of the separatrices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Completely integrable finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, integration methods, integrability tests (37J35) Perturbations of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, normal forms, small divisors, KAM theory, Arnol'd diffusion (37J40) Dynamical systems in classical and celestial mechanics (37N05)

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